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United Way grant aids Target's job skills training
United Way of Central Maryland's Community Partnership Board of Carroll County recently awarded a community grant of $1,500 to the Westminster-based Target Community and Educational Services. Target serves Carroll County residents with intellectual and...Tags: Carroll County (Maryland), Westminster (Carroll, Maryland)
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Constellation has proven a good neighbor
The American Red Cross of the Chesapeake Region knows how important it is to stay connected to your home. We have been serving Maryland's disaster victims every day for the past 107 years from our offices in Baltimore. We've changed our physical address a...Tags: Haiti Earthquake (2010), Relief and Aid Organizations, First Aid, Charity, Natural Disasters
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Baltimore's GiveCorps helps donors make small gifts count
Abby Ferretti, 28, is a hands-on philanthropist.
Four times a week, she volunteers with an organization called Back on My Feet, where she goes on 5:30 a.m. runs with residents of local homeless shelters. She's not the type to just write a check and...Tags: Music Industry, Bare (music group), Anne Arundel County, Station North, Enoch Pratt Free Library
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West Laurel: After that big Thanksgiving meal, get some exercise at Tom's Reindeer Run
Happy Thanksgiving West Laurel! Let the holiday race begin. The trees have lost most of their leaves and West Laurel is one big leaf-raking nightmare. But the leaves will disappear as they are swapped with the glow of Christmas lights. West Laurel loves...Tags: Thanksgiving, Holidays, Entertainment Events
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Counting on the generosity of the crowd
Robert Stone was a healthy baby until he was 13 months old. Then, over three or four days, he became unresponsive and lost the use of his limbs. His bewildered parents put him through one medical test after another, each yielding inconclusive results....Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Companies and Corporations, Startups, Bill Gates, Robert Stone
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Baltimore's fight against hunger gets healthy
When a load of bagged salad arrived at the Fishes & Loaves food pantry in West Baltimore recently, people scooped it up quickly. Salad is a treat for the more than 100 people who come to the pantry each month but usually face a limited choice of high-...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Marketing, Nutrition, Salads, University of Maryland, College Park
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District 14: Mary Pat Clarke
1. Please describe your educational and professional background and how it has prepared you to serve on the City Council.
I am a high school teacher and undergraduate instructor by profession. Earned my Master's Degree. English Literature, University...Tags: Marketing, Employment Opportunities, Employment, Bill Henry, Government
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Frederick W. Glassberg, community developer
Frederick W. Glassberg, a one-time Rouse Co. executive who became a prominent real estate and community developer in Howard County, died Sept. 15 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Columbia of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 77. A native of...Tags: Realty, New York University, Loyola University Maryland, Howard County, Real Estate
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Baltimore homeless shelter along Fallsway to sleep 275
An aging transportation building and garage in Baltimore has been restored into the $8 million Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Housing and Resource Center, adding to the growing complex of services for the homeless along the Fallsway. The 24-hour facility...Tags: Maryland, Homelessness, Forests, Natural Resources
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Preschool for homeless children losing its own home
Like a real-life episode of "Sesame Street," the lesson at The Ark preschool on a recent day was sponsored by the letter "S." Eight friends, as the teachers call the 3- and 4-year-old children, were buzzing like a hive of bees as they sounded out words...Tags: Marketing, Hospitals and Clinics, Homes, Family, Charity
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Village Learning Place lets the good times roll
2004 was a bad year for the Village Learning Place.
With state and city funding and private grants dwindling, the community-run library and activities center in Charles Village laid off four of 15 employees and announced "a period of restructuring and...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Colleges and Universities, Computer Networking and Internet, Charles Village, Corporate Performance
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Charles L. Schelberg, bank president, dies
Charles L. Schelberg, a retired Eastern Shore banker and a World War II veteran who served with the Navy in the Pacific, died June 19 of pneumonia at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.
The Queenstown resident was 86.
Mr. Schelberg was born in Wilmington,...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Defense, Elections, World War II (1939-1945), Annapolis
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